No easy answers after Fujitsu
The NHS IT programme faces further delays and difficult decisions on what it does next after firing Fujitsu. Jon Hoeksma reports.
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Fujitsu’s £896m NHS IT contract to be terminated
NHS Connecting for Health is to terminate the £896m contract with Fujitsu to upgrade NHS IT systems across the South of England.
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CSC and Fujitsu NHS contract resets continue
Negotiations to reset the local service provider contracts in the North, Midlands and East of England, plus the South of England have still not been finalised. E-Health Insider learned this week that a 6 May deadline for the completion of the contract with LSP Computer Sciences Corporation has passed unmet. Both Connecting for Health and […]
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NHS says Lorenzo won’t be complete until 2016
North West Strategic Health Authority says it does not expect full installation of the strategic Lorenzo electronic patient record software until 2016, a year later the date set out in last week’s National Audit Office report. A board paper from the SHA says a new contract between CfH/NHS and local service provider (LSP) CSC is […]
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Screening Programme automates reporting
The English National Screening Programme for Diabetic Retinopathy (ENSPDR), run by the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is to go live later this year with a new reporting application called EARS, built by Quicksilva Software Solutions. EARS will streamline the diabetic retinopathy screening programme‘s reporting process for Local Screening Programmes (LSPs) across England. Currently, around […]
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Newcastle chooses Pittsburgh for EHR
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre to deploy electronic health record technology at Newcastle’s hospitals.
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Does Lorenzo mean the end of GP electronic patient records?
GP Mary Hawking asks whether the introduction of shared electronic records marks the end of GP electronic records as they have been known to date.
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CfH director says Lorenzo will arrive in summer
Richard Jeavons is confident the next generation Lorenzo software from iSoft will be ready for delivery to the first NHS sites within the ‘period’ of the summer.
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BMJ Clinical Evidence to integrate with Millennium
The BMJ Group has signed an agreement with Cerner to integrate its medical information database, Clinical Evidence, with Cerner’s Millennium software. The first component of the deal will be the introduction of order entry sets for the hospital sector. This is likely to be piloted outside the UK first, as the database is not in […]
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McKesson says ESR job done
As the NHS Electronic Staff Record nears completion, E-Health Insider’s Jon Hoeksma speaks to Charmaine McDonald, MD of McKesson UK, the company behind the project.
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